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"Take this woman away," said Lovaway. "Don't let her hold me." "Doctor, darling," whined Mrs. Doolan, "don't be saying the like of that." "Biddy Doolan," said the sergeant, sternly, "will you let go of the doctor? I'd be sorry to arrest you, so I would, but arrested you'll be if you don't get along home out of that and keep quiet." Mrs.
"Doing pretty well, thank ye, Mick, my boy faith she's accustomed to it," said Doolan. "How's the lady that owns ye? Maybe I'll step down Sunday, and have a glass of punch, Kilburn way."
Doolan, who had been appointed chief of the commissariat department, said cheerfully. "The servants were a little disorganized when the firing began, but they soon became accustomed to it, and I think you will find everything in order in the hall." The meal was really a cheerful one.
"Both your boys," the Major laughed, "and Doolan and Rintoul." "When do we go, uncle?" "Next Monday. I shall get somebody to put us up from Friday, and that morning we will get everything dismantled here, and send them off by bullock carts with the servants to Deennugghur, so that they will be there by Monday morning.
'Suppose you attend her school in Martin's Row, with "better late than never" over her chimneypiece: there are two pupils of your own sex, you know, and you might sit on the bench with poor Potts and good old Doolan. 'Thank you.
We managed to swim back in with our burden on the top of a roller, well enough; but when we tried to secure our footing on the shore, the under- tow took us out again, although Pat Doolan flung himself face downwards on the sand, clutching it with one of his hands while he held the half- drowned man with the other in the same way as I did.
A momentary look of surprise came across his face as his eyes fell on Isobel. "I had hardly expected," he said, as the Major introduced him to her, "to find no less than three unmarried ladies at Deennugghur. I had the pleasure of being introduced to the Miss Hunters this afternoon. How do you do, Mrs. Doolan? I think it is four years since I had the pleasure of knowing you in Delhi."
Why, it would pain me less to see Jim brought in dead, than for him to show the white feather. What can we do for the poor fellow?" "Treat him just as usual. There is nothing else you can do, Mrs. Doolan. Any tone of sympathy, still less of pity, would be the worst thing possible.
"I have been leaving my pasteboard at all the residents," he said; "not a very large circle. Of course, I knew Mrs. Rintoul at Delhi, as well as Mrs. Doolan. I did not know any of the others. They seem pleasant people." "They are very pleasant," Isobel said. "I left one for a man named Bathurst. He was out.
"I know what Manilla cables are, and I've heard tell o' Manilla cigars, though I've never smoked 'em; but a Manilla guernsey why, who ever came across sich an outlandish thing?" "Be jabers, I have, boatswain," cried Pat Doolan. "Sure, an' I made it mysilf; so, if you'll listen, I'll till ye all about it."
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